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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Politics & Policy

Lawmakers have approved disaster aid funds to communities like Reno, Okla., which was struck by tornadoes last week. (Sue Ogrocki/AP Photo)
NPR
National

House passes $19.1 billion disaster bill despite earlier GOP efforts to stall it

The Senate negotiated the bipartisan legislation, which provides money for states and territories, including Puerto Rico, that are recovering from natural disasters.

7 years ago

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Medicine
New Jersey

Murphy’s plan to grow New Jersey’s medical marijuana industry met with criticism

New Jersey’s governor is moving ahead without the Legislature to expand the medical marijuana program.

7 years ago

U.S. Senators Bob Casey and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Aging

Pa., Del. among long list of troubled nursing homes revealed by Casey and Toomey

The federal government for years has kept under wraps the names of hundreds of nursing homes around the country found by inspectors to have serious health and safety concerns.

7 years ago

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump were welcomed to the U.K. by Queen Elizabeth II in a ceremony Monday at Buckingham Palace. (Toby Melville/Reuters)
NPR
International

Trump lands in U.K. for state visit, and insults London’s mayor

The state visit may be more officious and formal than Trump's tour of the U.K. last summer, but that didn't stop the president from hurling insults at London Mayor Sadiq Khan.

7 years ago

William Linares, a 5-year-old from Honduras, plays in an encampment where he is living near the international bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, on April 30. The boy is traveling with his mother, Suanny Gomez, and seeking asylum in the United States. (Eric Gay/AP Photo)
NPR
Immigration

As the line into America slows, communities form, and wait, on the Mexican side

In early May, according to estimates compiled by the Associated Press, there were approximately 13,000 migrants waiting in Mexico to apply for asylum.

7 years ago

The USS John S. McCain is seen docked at Changi naval base  on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017 in Singapore. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
National Interest
National Interest

Naval gazing: Trump is still bedeviled by a dead man

The quintessential Ugly American has arrived in England, hurling insults at London's mayor, but presumably his mood will be lightened by the absence of the USS John McCain.

7 years ago

In this Wednesday, May 15, 2019, photo a mother Peregrine Falcon guards her baby and nest on the City Hall Tower, after peregrine falcon banding in Philadelphia. (Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
Radio Times
Environment
LGBTQ

Regional Roundup – 06/03/19

This week: SCOTUS rejects transgender bathroom appeal, Pa.'s role in polluting the Chesapeake Bay, and the peregrine falcon comes back from the brink of extinction.

Air Date: May 27, 2019 10:00 am

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File photo: New Jersey State Capitol building in Trenton. (Alan Tu/WHYY)
New Jersey

N.J. voters to pick Assembly nominees in Tuesday’s primary

N.J. voters will decide whether an incumbent who lost Republican Party support but who casts himself as a strong supporter of President Donald Trump can win on Tuesday.

7 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the Human Rights Campaign Columbus, Ohio Dinner at Ohio State University Saturday, June 1, 2019. (Paul Vernon/AP Photo)
LGBTQ

Biden declares LGBTQ rights his No. 1 legislative priority

Joe Biden declared Saturday that the Equality Act would be a legislative priority, an effort to enshrine LGBTQ protections into labor and civil right laws.

7 years ago

World War II and D-Day veteran Charles Norman Shay, from Indian Island, Maine, poses on a dune at Omaha Beach in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. Shay was a combat medic on D-Day, assigned to an assault battalion in the first wave of attacks on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (Virginia Mayo/AP Photo)
History
International

D-Day’s 24 hours changed 20th century, and Europe, forever

"Some men cannot get enough of power," Shay said. "And it still continues today."

7 years ago

Participants wave a German flag during an anti-Israeli al-Quds demonstration in Berlin, Germany Saturday June 1, 2019, on al-Quds Day at the end of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting.  The annual al-Quds, Arabic for Jerusalem, march against Israel drew more than 1,000 participants, with some chanting “Palestine will be reborn!” or “Free Gaza!”. (Annette Riedl / dpa via AP)
International

Pro and anti-Israel protests draw hundreds in Berlin

Hundreds of people including prominent German politicians and members of the Jewish community are protesting against a larger, anti-Israel rally in Berlin.

7 years ago

Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan delivers his speech entitled 'The U.S. Vision for Indo-Pacific Security' during the first plenary session of the 18th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-la Dialogue, an annual defense and security forum in Asia, in Singapore, Saturday, June 1, 2019. (Yong Teck Lim/AP Photo)
International
Military
Technology

Defense chief calls out China on tech theft, South China Sea

U.S. Acting Defense Secretary Shanahan on Saturday denounced China's efforts to steal technology from other nations and militarize man-made outposts in the South China Sea.

7 years ago

In this June 1, 2018, (file photo), U.S. President Donald Trump, (right), talks with Kim Yong Chol, former North Korean military intelligence chief and one of leader Kim Jong Un's closest aides, as they walk from their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. A South Korean newspaper is reporting that North Korea executed a senior envoy involved in nuclear negotiations with the U.S. as well as four other high-level officials. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo, File)
International

Amid report of N. Korea purge, there are reasons for caution

A South Korean newspaper reported Friday that North Korea executed a senior envoy involved in nuclear negotiations with the U.S. as well as four other high-level officials.

7 years ago

This July 27, 2011 file photo shows a farmhouse in the background framed by pipes connecting pumps where the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale was underway at a Range Resources site in Claysville, Pa. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo)
Energy
Environment

Audit: Pa. Game commission didn’t track royalties from oil, gas

The Pennsylvania Game Commission failed to make sure that energy companies paid what they owed in royalties from oil and gas production on state hunting lands.

7 years ago

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ted Cruz vowed on Twitter to work together on legislation banning members of Congress who leave office from lobbying. (Alex Wong/Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images)
NPR
National

Ted Cruz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez team up to ban lawmakers from lobbying

The so-called revolving door of Washington has been spinning for years.

7 years ago

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